5/28/2004

Israel arrests, jails, expels BBC journalist

BBC journalist Peter Hounam, who first broke the Dimona nuclear weapon story by interviewing Mordechai Vanunu 20 years ago, was arrested by Israel last week. Probably solely due to the international scrutiny, he has since been released and expelled from the country.

There's not much comment to make here aside from pointing out the obvious fact that since Vannune was jailed for twenty years, there' s no information he could have given to Hounam since Vanunu's release that he didn't give to him 20 years ago.